Publishing only PDF and not your sources is like voluntary entropy

Just a quick reflection. Many documents from aid programmes are never
published. However, even if they were published, in all my efforts to
surface documents, I've only come across one word document. In fact,
some time ago the Open University of Nigeria was interested in a
programme to mass convert PDF back to Word.

Now, of course, there is conversation software (some smarter than
others). However, it strikes me that converting e.g. an OpenOffice /
Word Document to PDF is like the willful destruction of metadata
(i.e. formatting data). It's making it (accidentally or deliberately)
harder to work with the document.

So, as we suggested in our open content encyclopaedia entry (here), we need to push for both

I do also think that discovery is moving more into focus. Documents
cannot just be available somewhere, but they need to be made available
so that they are discoverable, ideally posted in multiple places,
including a shared platform.

In practice, this may mean that documents are posted in the following places:

At each organisation involved in the process (e.g. an NGO, a consultancy, and a Ministry)